Consumer Connection

As if to welcome home the arrival of fall
Consumers were in a frenzy at Costco today
So much to gather
Meat, bread, cookies and vegetables
Packaged in various ways
For the body to sustain its ephemeral state
To decay and disappear like the autumn leaves
But never to come back to the same tree again.

A mysterious voracious tube

Will be filled with
Dead bodies of other beings
Or the body parts of entities
That cannot complain or cry

Processed in myriad ways

Fried, boiled, spiced and even rare
Only to be lysed and excreted at the other end.

My grocery
A signature of my culture
My signature of annihilation
Of lives of others to have my own
To recycle the carbon atoms
To sustain me
The machine to envision
The unreal in the real world.

((*.*))

Babru
October 28, 2005